This is a brilliant book, clear, succinct and insightful. Part of the canon on our understanding of what life is / what it means to be animate instead of inanim

This is a brilliant book, clear, succinct and insightful. Part of the canon on our understanding of what life is / what it means to be animate instead of inanimate. Other books on the intangible quality of being alive: - At Home in the Universe by Stuart Kauffman - The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander - Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter